Re: Customization of Gnome Fund Contribution to Country levels

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

Dear Shailesh,

GNOME accepts donations starting from as low as you can afford. Please 
review http://www.gnome.org/friends/step2.php for one time donation: you 
can see that the default amount is U$25 (and not $500) and can be edited 
to a lower amount.

I hope that clarifies the issues for you.

Kind regards,

Fred

On 04/05/2011 11:12 AM, Zenwalker wrote:
> Dear Board Members,
>
> I here by wish to make an appeal for customizing the rates (contribution
> funds) to Gnome programs such as Gnome Store, Friends of Gnome,
> Contribute to Gnome, etc. to be customized to the country rates such a
> way more people can affort to contribute.
>
> The current problem is, most contributors willing to contribute to the
> Free software (Gnome, Linuxfoundation, FSF, etc.) are not able to
> contribute in any way viz Buying goodies, fund transfers, etc. coz the
> conversion rates are too high.
>
> For example, to become a friends of Gnome program and sponsor 500USD to
> get a one time membership, etc. features, it will cost around 21,000 INR
> (Indian Currency) for an individual.
>
> This is leading to loosing alot of contributors in and around asia
> specific. I can assure you this problem is faced by many in my country
> (india) when ever i interact with many people interested in gnome and
> wishes to contribute funds, upon seeing the conversion rates, they back
> off.
>
> Hence i here by make a request to the board of members to take further
> decisions as requested above, so that every body can contribute easily
> and comfortably.
>
> P.S: I had the same above discussion with Brian Cameron when he visited
> Gnome.Asia 2011 summit in bangalore recently. He directed me to write a
> mail to the Board Members.
>
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